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Beat Baumgartner is a Swiss designer working primarily in bicycle and food design. He holds a Master of Arts in Product Design from écal (Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne). Since the age of twenty, he has been designing and handcrafting each of his bicycles in his own workshop near Berne. He further assists companies in developing and testing their design ideas for vehicles, mainly bicycles. He strives at achieving designs that work towards a future-proof, democratically accessible and sustainable mobility.
Together with friends, he runs Bogen17 Kiosque, a restaurant at the shore of Lake Wohlen (Wohlensee). The team develops hyper-local menus and designs its dishes “from field to plate”. Beat and his colleagues collaborate closely with farmers in the immediate vicinity of the restaurant. The team works with the principles of regenerative design. They keep questioning and challenging both cultivation methods and processing techniques to efficiently utilize agricultural resources.
Work (selection):
2023 – Co-founder of BieniBoni – regenerative food design concept
2020 – Prototyping and design concept for Freitag lab – monopole
2017 – Co-founder of POINTO AG – a watch for cyclists
2013 – Co-founder of Bogen17 Kiosque – local restaurant
2009 – Founder bedovelo – swiss hand made bicycles
Awards and Exhibitions (selection):
2024 – Swiss Design Awards – nomination Food Design
2021 – BLC Zurich, Switzerland– winner best bicycle design
2020 – MODA Atlanta USA – exhibition bike to the future
2019 – Bespoked Bristol UK – exhibition
2017 – Alte Viktoria Bern, Switzerland– personal exhibition Velosculpture
2017 – Design Festival Bern – exhibition
2016 – Design 22 Bern – exhibition
2012 – EHBE Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany – winner best bicycle design
2012 – BLC Zurich, Switzerland – public award best bicycle
2011 – ISPO Munich, Germany – brand new award bicycle design & manufacturing
Social Media:
instagram – beat0baumgartner
instagram – bedovelo
instagram – bogen17